A new dual-channel resonant gate drive circuit for low gate drive loss and low switching loss

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1574-1583

  Yang, Zhihua ^a   Ye, Sheng ^a   Liu, Yan Fei ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gate drive loss; MOSFET driver; Resonant gate drive circuit; Switching converters; Switching loss

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC LOSSES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOSFET DEVICES; RESONANT CIRCUITS;

DUAL-CHANNEL RESONANT GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT; GATE DRIVE LOSS; RESONANT GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT; SWITCHING LOSS;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 44449127062     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.920877     Document Type: Article

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